News: Sod Updates
Update time once more!Lots of updates on SOD, including SOD of the Month, Bitch of the Month,Contest winners and more!
Sound And Vision
Everyone should check out this detailed interview (11 pages!) with DB in Sound and Vision Magazine's first issue of the new Millennium. Does that mean we're the cutting edge of the cutting egde? Cool.
Check out the lovely photo on page 9 of the BowieNet webmaster in his UltraStar environs. Looks familiar. ;-)
Go to the interview
Bowie @ The Npg
If you've not yet been, here's a little reminder that you have two weeks left to catch the current exhibition 'Faces of the Century' at London's National Portrait Gallery, as mentioned on BowieArt.com back in October of the last century. For more information and a few words from David about his selections click on the image above.
Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)
Q Again
FYI, there is a review of the December 2nd, 1999 Astoria Gig that is linked under the Features department on the front page of Q Magazine
info courtesy Spaceface
Girls, Girls, Girls, Chat, Chat, Chat!
Three Little Birds...Behind every great man etc etcThe representatives of 'the fair sex' from the Dave Bowie band will all be available for a bit of chitter chatter, and no doubt some juicy inside gossip on Wednesday, January 26th. That's right Gail Ann Dorsey, Emm Gryner and Holly Palmer will be expecting your most probing enquiries from 8:00pm EST. That gives you well over a week to swot up on your subjects....Oh, almost forgot...they will be dragging along their friend David Bowie, who has been involved in some of their musical experiments in the past. Look for more info on this chat next week.
Glasto 2k Fan Vote
The voting booths are NOW OPEN!! The good news is that DB is already in the top 5 or 10 vote-getters, but I know we can do better. Go VOTE FOR BOWIE at the Official Glastonbury Festival website.
Birthday Update: Tokyo 2000
Just added a page with links to stories and images of the Tokyo Birthday 2000 Celebration! Click here to go to DB's Birthday Celebration! Remember to hunt through those eggs!
A special thank you to Tomoko Sato for keeping us Western Hemispherians informed!
Holy Polls
ROCK AND FOLK RESULTS
To say that DB had a positive showing for the year-end poll in Rock and Folk Magazine (French), would be a HUGE understatement. The first category says it all... Ladies and Gentlemen, the Artist of the Year, DAVID BOWIE!!
ARTIST OF THE YEAR
1- BOWIE
2- Beck
3- MANU CHAO
4- BEN HARPER
5- IGGY POP
BAND OF THE YEAR
1- CHEMICAL BROS.
2- Red hot..
3- PLACEBO
4- Deus
5- Zebda
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
1- CHEMICAL BROS Surrender
2- Red Hot... californication
3- BOWIE hours
4- Deus Ideal Crash
5- IGGY P·P Avenue B
SINGLE OF THE YEAR
1- Zebda Tomber La Chemise
2- PLACEBO / BOWIE Without You...
3- CHEMICAL Hey Boy...
4- Mr Oizo Flat Beat
5- BOWIE Thursday's Child
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
1- Mr Oizo
2- BOWIE Thursday's Child
3- Madonna Beautiful Stranger
ALBUM SLEEVE OF THE YEAR
1- BOWIE Hours
2- Red Hot Californication
3- IGGY POP Avenue B
SEX SYMBOL OF THE YEAR
1- My Girlfriend (sic) [Ed. No, it's MY girlfriend]
2- Jennifer Lopez
3- DAVID BOWIE
3- Shirley Manson
KMSV KICK ASS POLL
We came, we saw, we voted. Check out the Kick Ass Results for the Bowie Kick Ass Poll! Brought to you by KelMarSuperVixen. Thanks KMSV :-)
Click here for the results
RADIO FREE TOP 100
As of the most recent (January 1st, 2000) update, Bowie placed #80 in the Radio Free Top 100 Music Poll. The poll is to be updated every 3 months, so lets get a good head start on the next round, and flood those ballot boxes! Here is a message from the Top 100 site:
"We're always interested in the opinion of our readers, so we've set up this ongoing poll where you can vote for your favorite artist. The rules are simple: everyone who participates gets 5 votes. You can split them up however you like: you can cast 1 vote for five artists, or, if you are an obsessive freak, you can cast all 5 votes for one artist."
Let's see some obsessive-freak-style votes for DB! :-)
Go VOTE for BOWIE at the Radio Free Top 100
Do You Want Ginger With That David?
Quite a build-up to this one from 6:30am this morning UK time, with Virgin Radio boss Chris Evans pretending tofret that he hoped David would be up in time for the 'live' interview!
David set the scene with the information that it was 2:20am in New York and that he had just finished washing hishands, having helped some workmen to lift paving slabs after a mains pipe had burst outside in the street. If youheard the interview and believed that statement, then you have a cruel life ahead of you.
But, I believe the story was merely a vehicle for the beautifully spiritual message that followed. A message that,while it works on the literal level that David had painted in our minds to illustrate his point, it obviously holds adeeper meaning that stretches out across the nations of the Earth and is the very essence of BowieNet: "Chris",Said David, "If you're gonna live in a community, I really think that you have to be part of it."
Go here for the whole thing.
Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)
Digitalclubnetwork
The DigitalClubNetwork website (a sharp-looking site for the Flash enthusiast) is cybercasting the LIVE performance of 'Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars' from Arlene Grocery (95 Stanton Street, NYC) on January 15th. The band features Tony from The Buzzcocks and other noted NYC musicians. Showtime is 10:00pm EST. Check it out!
Go to the DigitalClubNetwork
Also, check out Arlene-Grocery.com
Just For Fun: Life From Mars?!?!
In a study presented Wednesday at the national meeting of the American Astronomical Society, experts said their calculations show that if life ever existed on Mars then it could have been carried to Earth aboard some 5 trillion rocks blasted from the Red Planet by impacting asteroids.
They concluded that it is theoretically possible that life on Earth came from life on Mars!
Go to the story at CNN.com
'withnail' And You
A great show for a great cause! Definitely check out this info page, and help out in any way possible. Also, BowieNet sends a very special Thank You to Richard E. Grant.
Db Interview
David has just done a phone with Chris Evans, the interview will go out on the Virgin Breakfast show tomorrow at 7:25am.
We Know This To Be True!!
An interesting though incidental page is this. It is the Users Review page on Amazon.com for 'hours...' Overwhelmingly positive, you can see just how immensely popular this album has become in just a short time.
Go to the Users Review @ Amazon.com
And The Winner Is...
The tallies have been counted, and the winners have been notified, the Music of the Millennium Poll results are in! Here's how our own personal Rock Legend fared (along with some of the closest competition):
Best Album
38. ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS
102. HUNKY DORY
Best Song
55. DAVID BOWIE - HEROES
56. JIMI HENDRIX - ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
57. OTIS REDDING - DOCK OF THE BAY
88. DEREK AND THE DOMINOES - LAYLA
89. DAVID BOWIE - LIFE ON MARS
90. LOU REED - PERFECT DAY
Best Male Vocalist
6. FREDDIE MERCURY
7. DAVID BOWIE
8. JOHN LENNON
Best Songwriter
12. BURT BACHARACH
13. DAVID BOWIE
14. PAUL SIMON
Most Influential Artist of the Millennium
7. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
8. DAVID BOWIE
9. BOB DYLAN
10. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
11. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Check out the full poll results here
Bowiebanc.com
Banking on Bowie to
Bring in the Bucks
Bring in the Bucks
Ziggy played guitar, or so goes the famous David Bowie song. Now he's making loans and quoting CD rates. At least in name. David Bowie, an online pioneer, has quietly launched his own bank, BowieBanc.com. Want more of the Thin White Duke? Then get Bowie photo checks. You can get all the standard bank services -- just don't expect Bowie himself to approve your loan.
The bank is actually USABancShares.com, with a Bowie front end. Robert Goodale, whose company Ultrastar runs Bowie's online service, BowieNet, says a bank is one more way to create online community. It's part of the "complete private label Internet presence" many celebs seek.
Bowie previously dabbled in banking in 1997, when he sold bonds against his future earnings to raise $55 million.
Go to BowieBanc.com
Bowiebanc - The World Catches Up!
'Gonna find her some money honey'
Months after the announcement on BowieNet of the launch of BowieBanc.com the story has finally brokenon many online news services. At least one of these items, quotes BowieNet's very own action-hero andlover of the Bolanesque, Ron Roy. Here is a snippet from the news service supplied by dotmusic.com:
Ron Roy, one of Bowie's partners in the new online bank, commented "David has always pridedhimself on being first". Roy is also involved in the legendary rocker's online company UltraStarand his Internet service provider, Bowienet... It is hoped by Bowie and his partners that fans will wishto use the bank, to show their loyalty and passion for the ever changing brand that is David Bowie. Roysaid "You've got a passion for something, you want to show your passion."
Unfortunately the service doesn't seem to be available to us fans in Europe, so how long before voided UScards start to appear on ebay?!
It appears that the only national here in the UK to announce the launch of BowieBanc.com today, was theBowie-championing Daily Star who ran a short piece that can be read by clicking the above image or goingto their web site here. It would seem that the Star has a fan in its midst.
Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)
Hallo Ducky - Db In A Spin
"In walked duck and
you looked in time"
Mr B in fine form here in this rather amusing online interview courtesy of Spin.com. And what the duck is the bird all about?!
Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)
The Girl With The Mousy...erm...blonde...or Is It Red?...hair
In a new year clearout, and a spectacularly failed attempt to 'simplify my life', I stumbled across the above itemwhich happens to be a mint condition copy of 'the fabulous LITTLE RICHARD' on Specialty Records. I have afeeling it is a re-issue as opposed to the original, but I'm sure it would suit somebody who needs a copy just forplaying.
As I say I don't really need it, so the first person with a wonky left eye and an ex backing band called The Spiders toe-mail me with a claim, can collect the prize forthwith.
Total Blam Blam - (European Correspondent)